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Researcher · University of Maryland, College Park · United States

Jessica Vitak

Jessica Vitak publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Communication and Artificial Intelligence, on topics such as Social Media and Politics, Privacy, Security, and Data Protection and Impact of Technology on Adolescents.

ORCID 0000-0001-9362-9032 OpenAlex
World rank
#14,561
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#5,143
of 1,627,098
Works
138
Citations
12k
Citations per work
84.9
h-index
44
i10-index 88Top 0.7% in Sociology and Political Science
Jessica Vitak

What does Jessica Vitak research?

Jessica Vitak's work is mostly in Social Sciences (54%), Computer Science (11%), Psychology (5%).

Social Sciences: 81 works · 58.5% of their workSocial Sciences: 74 works · 53.5% of their workSociology and Political Science: 44 works · 32.0% of their workCommunication: 22 works · 16.3% of their workEducation: 7 works · 5.2% of their workPsychology: 7 works · 5.0% of their workClinical Psychology: 7 works · 5.0% of their workEverything else: 42 works · 30.5% of their workPhysical Sciences: 15 works · 11.0% of their workComputer Science: 15 works · 11.0% of their workArtificial Intelligence: 8 works · 5.8% of their workHuman-Computer Interaction: 7 works · 5.2% of their workTHEIR WORKJessica Vitak138works
Physical Sciences11%Social Sciences58%

Their six largest subfields, inside their fields and domains; the grey slice is everything else they publish. The interactive view splits every one of their works down to single topics.

The fields and subfields, with their numbers
    1. Social Sciences7453.5%
    2. Psychology75.0%
  2. Everything else4230.5%
    1. Computer Science1511.0%
  1. 1Sociology and Political Science32% of their works
  2. 2Communication16% of their works
  3. 3Artificial Intelligence6% of their works
  4. 4Human-Computer Interaction5% of their works
  5. 5Education5% of their works
  6. 6Clinical Psychology5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Jessica Vitak's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Social Media, Online Communication, Surveillance, Trust, Digital Divide, Political Participation, Online Social Networks and Privacy Concerns.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most. The words come from the keyword list OpenAlex gives each topic, not from the text of the papers, so a word can appear that none of the papers uses.

All 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Social Media953 topics
  2. Online Communication852 topics
  3. Surveillance562 topics
  4. Trust542 topics
  5. Digital Divide461 topic
  6. Political Participation461 topic
  7. Online Social Networks441 topic
  8. Privacy Concerns441 topic
  9. Addiction391 topic
  10. Well-being391 topic
  11. Design Research161 topic
  12. User Experience161 topic
  13. Digital Technology141 topic
  14. Parental Mediation141 topic
  15. Ethics121 topic
  16. Fairness121 topic
  17. Hypersexual Disorder101 topic
  18. Knowledge Sharing101 topic
  19. Pornography Consumption101 topic
  20. Virtual Communities101 topic

Where does Jessica Vitak work?

Jessica Vitak's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Maryland, College Park, United States.

How many publications and citations does Jessica Vitak have?

OpenAlex counts 138 works and 11,715 citations for Jessica Vitak, an h-index of 44, ranking #14,561 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised citation excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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